Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport

Photo of Hildegarde NaughtonHildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I can. We engage extensively with all our regional airports on improving connectivity. That is part of the reason I opened up the mid-term view of the regional airports programme. The application from Shannon Airport is with the Department. I know members of the committee visited Schiphol Airport with regard to PSOs there. I wish to ensure Shannon Airport and the mid-west grow and we increase connectivity. We allocated a significant amount of funding to our airports in order that they could directly engage with airlines. Airports and airlines would have to engage on what cities and hubs there could potentially be PSO services with, so-----

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